Stock clerks
AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.
Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.
0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.
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Stock clerks have a minimal exposure score of 37/100, suggesting selective augmentation rather than job loss. EU group demand rises through 2035, although WEF ranks the occupation among the fastest-declining globally.
What changes
- Drafting stock requisitions and estimating replenishment needs
- Updating inventory records and verifying goods issued
- Preparing receipt, dispatch and storage documentation
What stays human
- Physically inspecting goods and resolving quantity or condition discrepancies
- Coordinating urgent stock movements with warehouse and operations teams
- Maintaining accountability for tools, spare parts and controlled equipment
What to learn
- Learn warehouse management systems and automated inventory workflows
- Build competence in cycle counting and discrepancy investigation
- Develop demand-planning and stock-replenishment judgment
Task by task
The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).
- Maintaining stock records, verifying issue of goods, estimating needs and making requisitions of new stocks43
- Arranging and controlling receipt and dispatch of goods and keeping relevant records39
- Receiving, storing and issuing tools, spare parts, or various equipment and maintaining relevant records39
- Compiling inventories of furniture and other items received for storage38
- Weighing goods received or produced, or for issue or dispatch and maintaining relevant records27
How much does it affect you?
Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.
For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.
- Maintaining stock records, verifying issue of goods, estimating needs and making requisitions of new stocks(43)
- Arranging and controlling receipt and dispatch of goods and keeping relevant records(39)
- Receiving, storing and issuing tools, spare parts, or various equipment and maintaining relevant records(39)
- Compiling inventories of furniture and other items received for storage(38)
- Weighing goods received or produced, or for issue or dispatch and maintaining relevant records(27)
You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 37.)
About 0% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).
- • Maintaining stock records, verifying issue of goods, estimating needs and making requisitions of new stocks
- • Arranging and controlling receipt and dispatch of goods and keeping relevant records
- • Weighing goods received or produced, or for issue or dispatch and maintaining relevant records
- • Compiling inventories of furniture and other items received for storage
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How many people work in this occupational group?
Share of the Numerical and material recording clerks group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).
Table view
| Country | Numerical and material recording clerks |
|---|---|
| Belgium | 4.6% · 238 thousand · 2025 |
| Croatia | 4.4% · 75 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovakia | 4.3% · 112 thousand · 2025 |
| Netherlands | 3.8% · 372 thousand · 2025 |
| Germany | 3.6% · 1,504 thousand · 2025 |
| Estonia | 3.5% · 25 thousand · 2025 |
| Czechia | 3.1% · 164 thousand · 2025 |
| Slovenia | 3.1% · 31 thousand · 2025 |
| Sweden | 3.0% · 160 thousand · 2025 |
| Poland | 3.0% · 519 thousand · 2025 |
| Spain | 3.0% · 666 thousand · 2025 |
| Italy | 3.0% · 719 thousand · 2025 |
| Switzerland | 2.9% · 143 thousand · 2025 |
| Cyprus | 2.9% · 15 thousand · 2025 |
| Austria | 2.9% · 128 thousand · 2025 |
| Norway | 2.8% · 81 thousand · 2025 |
| France | 2.4% · 707 thousand · 2025 |
| Malta | 2.4% · 8 thousand · 2025 |
| Bulgaria | 2.3% · 67 thousand · 2025 |
| Hungary | 2.3% · 106 thousand · 2025 |
| Latvia | 2.2% · 19 thousand · 2025 |
| Ireland | 2.2% · 61 thousand · 2025 |
| Denmark | 2.1% · 64 thousand · 2025 |
| Lithuania | 2.0% · 30 thousand · 2025 |
| United Kingdom | 2.0% · 669 thousand · 2025 |
| Luxembourg | 1.9% · 6 thousand · 2025 |
| Portugal | 1.8% · 94 thousand · 2025 |
| Romania | 1.8% · 137 thousand · 2025 |
| Greece | 1.6% · 70 thousand · 2025 |
| Finland | 1.4% · 35 thousand · 2025 |
| Iceland | 0.5% · 1 thousand · 2025 |
What do they earn?
Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Clerical support workers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.
By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.
- Switzerland4,326
- Luxembourg3,358
- Denmark3,338
- Belgium3,291
- Norway3,160
- Germany2,927
- Ireland2,900
- Iceland2,825
- Austria2,768
- Netherlands2,680
- EU272,590
- Italy2,521
- Sweden2,451
- Finland2,386
- Spain2,121
- Slovenia2,111
- Malta2,089
- Lithuania2,049
- France2,018
- Croatia1,847
- Greece1,837
- Poland1,796
- Romania1,755
- Estonia1,740
- Czechia1,725
- Cyprus1,685
- Hungary1,682
- Latvia1,617
- Slovakia1,583
- Portugal1,421
- Bulgaria1,203
Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.
Outlook to 2035
Employment in the Numerical and material recording clerks group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.
thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection
Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.
According to the WEF
Material-Recording and Stock-Keeping Clerks — among the FASTEST-DECLINING jobs (rank 8)
Future 2035 →Related occupations
Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?